Don’t Buy From Recruiters: Job Search Boycott Gains Momentum
Posted on March 27, 2014 2 Comments
Organizers are calling for the immediate cessation of all activities related to recruiting and hiring with hopes candidate shortage will fix candidate experience
Washington, DC – Do you think the job search is broken? If so, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey by the National Institute of Subjective Statistics, 79% of job seekers report feeling “somewhat” or “extremely” dissatisfied with their own candidate experience or search.
That’s why a growing number of concerned candidates are taking matters into their own hands and calling for a national boycott on searching for jobs. Candidates Anonymous, the name most commonly used for the grassroots movement spearheading the boycott initiative, has issued a public call for inaction, urging all workers to immediately discontinue any activity related to recruiting or hiring.
Millennials and Social Media
Posted on March 26, 2014 2 Comments
The first thing you should know about recruiting Generation Y? According to pioneering generational researchers William Strauss and Neil Howe, workers born between 1982-2000 actually prefer to be called Millennials.
That nuance illustrates the essential element to recruiting and attracting the best Millennial talent — effective communications that speak to and understand their language and values.
Let’s Talk About Tech
Posted on March 20, 2014 1 Comment
There’s this funny phenomenon when you work for a technology company, in any capacity, you suddenly become people’s default help desk.
Even though doing something like marketing enterprise software in no way qualifies you do diagnose, say, why someone’s computer keeps freezing up.
I might be a geek, but Geek Squad I ain’t.
Under the Bridge and Trolling
Posted on March 4, 2014 6 Comments
I’ll confess: I’m a troll. And not because I’m so damn short. It’s because, to cite my favored definition, a troll – in online parlance, at least – is someone who enjoys experimenting with the emotions and passions about things that seem, to any reasonable person, silly, superficial and specious. Take sourcing, for example.
Why Blogging Best Practices Are BS
Posted on March 4, 2014 Leave a Comment
Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, clinically proven, that, while rare, presents itself in very specific situations: almost unilaterally, it affects Japanese tourists visiting Paris, hence its name (although, occasional cases have been documented in Florence).
In many cases, these tourists report to having either full blown panic attacks or outbursts of pure mania, visual and aural hallucinations as well as a complete sense of disorientation, or an out of body, uncontrollable experience.
Snark Attack 